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Write an Executive Summary

Executives care about the "so what," not the "how."

Structure of a 1-Pager

  1. The Problem: We are losing 10% of customers monthly. Costing £1M/year.
  2. The Solution: We built a model to predict churn 30 days in advance.
  3. The Impact: We can target the top 5% most likely to leave with a £10 voucher.
  4. Estimated ROI: Saving 2% of customers = +£200k/year.
  5. Cost to run: £10k/year in vouchers.
  6. The Ask: We need approval to run an A/B test on 10,000 customers next month.

What NOT to Include

  • What algorithm you used (unless asked).
  • How you scaled the data.
  • What a confusion matrix is.
  • Detailed hyperparameter tables.

KSB Mapping

KSB Description How This Addresses It
S5 Deployment, value assessment, and ROI Translating model performance into business impact
S6 Communicate through storytelling and visualisation Presenting ML results to non-technical stakeholders
B4 Consideration of organisational goals Framing technical results in terms of business objectives
B1 Inquisitive approach Exploring creative ways to explain model behaviour